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  • Mark McCaughreanmarkmccaughrean@mastodon.social
    Mar 20, 2025, 4:30 PM

    Well, since it’s my binary 1000000th birthday today 🎉👴, it’s time let you know about the book I’ve been writing 📖

    Titled “111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss”, it’s a tour guide to some fascinating locations in the Solar System, Milky Way, & beyond. Each “chapter” comes with a full page image & a description of what you’d see & learn if you could travel there 🚀🧑‍🚀

    Published by Emons Verlag, it’s out in July in the UK, September in the US 👇

    accartbooks.com/uk/book/111-pl

    #SpaceScience

    Cover of the book "111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss" by Mark McCaughrean, featuring an astronaut floating in a colorful star-strewn background (it’s an ESO VLT infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula).
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  • Mark McCaughreanmarkmccaughrean@mastodon.social
    Mar 20, 2025, 4:42 PM

    You’ll also see it for sale on the usual big online websites, but a note of caution:

    The book was originally announced a few years ago with different authors, but for various reasons, they withdrew & I was asked to start again from scratch.

    Their names sometimes appear in various permutations alongside mine (or without me) against a white-edged cover image as the big sites haven’t all sorted out the listing.

    But the only book that’ll be for sale is by me alone & with a black-edged cover 👍

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  • Mark McCaughreanmarkmccaughrean@mastodon.social
    Mar 20, 2025, 4:47 PM

    The book is part of the Emons “111 Places” series of tour guides, published in German & English:

    emons-verlag.de/buecher/111-or
    111places.com/

    although for now it’s in English only.

    Because it kind of mimics a normal city tour guide, the writing style is perhaps a bit different to a normal space book, but hopefully still works.

    And while it’s definitely for the general public, you’ll still get some latest research & science insights, plus coordinates to point your telescope 🙂🔭

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